On their first day back in the Capitol since the killing Friday night of six college students near UC Santa Barbara, Democrats in the California Legislature on Tuesday said the state should do more to keep mentally ill people from obtaining guns. Democratic Assembly members Das Williams of Santa Barbara and Nancy Skinner of Berkeley […]

Two California counties sued five of the world’s largest narcotics manufacturers on Wednesday, accusing the companies of causing the nation’s prescription drug epidemic by waging a “campaign of deception” aimed at boosting sales of potent painkillers such as OxyContin. Officials from Orange and Santa Clara counties â€” both hit hard by overdose deaths, emergency room […]

Cashiers smiled as they welcomed customers to the Foods Co supermarket in East Oakland during the much-anticipated opening of the 75,000-square-foot store just over a month ago. Grocers showed off stacks of colorful fresh fruits and vegetables, the kind of nutritious foods residents said were impossible to find on the liquor-store shelves that were previously […]

SACRAMENTO (AP) – Three Republican state senators are calling for increased criminal penalties for lawmakers convicted of taking bribes under state law, a move that comes as two Democratic colleagues face federal corruption charges. Senators Mike Morrell, Steve Knight and Ted Gaines said Friday that the ethics reforms proposed by California Democrats are too weak. […]

There is a special brand of irony amid all the recent Compost Week hoopla at the State Capitol: Californians Against Waste finds itself sponsoring of two bills that are completely at odds with one another in a move that some insiders are considering to be a calculated attempt to secure a fundraising push within the […]

The FBI sting operation that snared state Sen. Leland Yee and Chinatown tong leader Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow was snooping around an even bigger Bay Area name – 49ers football legend Joe Montana – but came up empty, according to informedÂ sources. Montana, the Hall of Fame quarterback who has dabbled in development deals since retiring […]

The news both shocked and outraged: How did a suspected child molester land a job teaching children after being fired by a different school two months earlier? As Bay Area educators and parents wonder how Ron Guinto was hired to teach at Mira Vista Middle School in Richmond after being fired by a nearby charter […]

Wright, now rather infamously, continues to serve in the Senate despite having been found guilty by a Los Angeles jury of eight counts of perjury and voter fraud, centered around the Senator falsely saying that he lived in a place where prosecutors convinced jurors he, in fact, did not live at all. Unlike the United […]

One month after splitting with his campaign manager in his run for governor, Republican Tim Donnelly has fired Alex Vassar, his legislative chief of staff, sources said. To read the full piece, click here

US Airways tweeted out an extremely explicit photo today featuring a lady with a toy airplane sticking out of a certain place where planes have no business being stuck. To read the full article click here.